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Comment by robocat

4 years ago

Microsoft Windows also uploads your private exe’s, and then runs them on Microsoft servers:

https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-...

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p410n3  4 years ago

Holy Shit. That should be illegal. All it needs is one rogue employee to potentially steal trade secrets? And dont tell me MS employees never go rogue after the recent events...

  • iso1631  4 years ago

    Surely it's against copyright law

    • nordsieck  4 years ago

      > Surely it's against copyright law

      It almost certainly is, but

      1. You have to know it's happening before you can do anything about it

      2. If your "work" isn't registered with the copyright office, you're limited to actual damages, which are probably close to $0

phendrenad2  4 years ago

TL;DR: It's an option that can be disabled, unlike on Mac. Also doesn't lock up your PC if Apple's network is having a bad day.